YES, THAT'S ME.
Sorry I haven't kept up. A little problem with my health. Came down with pneumonia on Dec. 22 and ended up in the hospital. I couldn't breathe very well but otherwise not bad. The kept me and pushed antibiotics for three days. On Xmas eve they sent me home, with oxygen attached. Thought I was doing okay until around New Years Eve. I got to feeling very bad and my chest hurt very badly. I thought I had a cracked rib from some of the coughing. Susie wanted to call an aid car and I protested. I went to the doctor for follow-up on Jan. 2. She listened to my right lung and sent me to x-ray and blood tests. When the results came back, she said my right lung was full of fluid and I needed to go back to the hospital. I spent another 7 days and got my lung drained with a BIG needle. More antibiotics and rest. Finally I went home. I have been resting, pretty much, since then. I get out a little but just a trip to the store brings me back home to my lounge chair to catch my breath and rest a bit. The doc said a couple months until I'm back to normal. It's cold outside so nothing much going on, anyway. TV sucks but I read a lot. I have been looking in the mirror and didn't like what I was seeing. With being sick and all, I was looking pretty poorly. So, I was starting to fear that Susie might call the cops and have them take me down and thow me under the bridge with the other poor souls , Sooooooo - off came my beard. Susie wasn't home when I cut it but when she came home, it took a minute for her to notice. She said it makes me look a lot younger. Maybe a little. Anyway, I don't look so scruffy. Some of you out there may not have ever seen me without a beard or did but don't remember. I grew it in 2004 after hunting. Anyway, I don't look forward to shaving again but I will manage. But it's really cold when I go outside. Temps at our place have been in the single digits at night and teens in the day. Snow this weekend, they say. We have had a foot of snow on the ground since the 2nd of Jan. Well, enough for now.